Text Markup

• SSML: Speech Synthesis Markup Language
• HTML

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SSML: Speech Synthesis Markup Language

The following markup tags and attributes are recognised:

• xml:base (the value is just passed back as a parameter with the UriCallback() function)
• xml:lang

• xml:lang
• name
• age
• variant
• gender

• rate
• volume
• pitch
• range

• interpret-as="characters"
• interpret-as="characters" format="glyphs"
• interpret-as="tts:key"
• interpret-as="tts:char"
• interpret-as="tts:digits"

name

• xml:lang

• xml:lang

alias

• field="punctuation" mode=none,all,some
• field="capital_letters" mode=no,spelling,icon,pitch

src

• level

• strength
• time

HTML

eSpeak can speak HTML text directly, or text containing both SSML and HTML markup.
Any unrecognised tags are ignored.

The following tags case a sentence break.

The following tags case a paragraph break.

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Text between the following tags is ignored.

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